All Inclusive Yacht Charters: What's Included

A crewed all inclusive yacht charter gives your group a private yacht, a captain and a chef for the week, with meals, the ship’s bar and the water toys already covered by the rate. This page sets out exactly what sits inside that rate, what you still pay for separately, and what a week actually costs.

ONE WEEKLY PRICE, ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOARD

What Is Included in the Charter Rate

On a crewed all inclusive charter you pay one weekly rate for the yacht and for nearly everything you use aboard:

The yacht and its crew — a captain and a chef on smaller catamarans, joined by a stewardess and a deckhand as yachts get larger.
Every meal aboard, cooked to the preference sheet you fill in before you fly, plus snacks, soft drinks and the ship’s bar.
Water toys — snorkelling gear, paddleboards and kayaks as standard, with seabobs, e-foils, jet skis or dive gear on yachts equipped for them.
Fuel for normal cruising and for the tender that runs you ashore.
Linens, towels and daily housekeeping, so the yacht is put back together while you are off it.

The list of exceptions is short: national park and cruising permits, dockage on the nights you choose a marina over an anchorage, meals you take ashore, and the customary crew gratuity. Equipment varies from yacht to yacht, so we confirm what is included on your yacht in writing before you sign anything.

Caribbean and Mediterranean charters are priced differently

This single difference explains most of the confusion about charter pricing. A Greek yacht that looks cheaper than a Caribbean one of the same size usually is not — its rate simply covers less. Both are worth chartering; you just need to compare like with like.

	Caribbean	Mediterranean
How rates are quoted	All inclusive, per week	Plus expenses, per week
Inside the advertised rate	Yacht, crew, all meals, ship’s bar, water toys and fuel for normal cruising	The yacht and its crew
Paid on top	Park and cruising permits, dockage, meals ashore, gratuity	Food, drink, fuel, dockage and port fees, collected up front as an Advance Provisioning Allowance (APA) of roughly 30–35% of the rate and settled against receipts at the end of the week
Season	December to April, with Christmas and New Year at peak rates	May to October, with July and August at peak rates
Tax	No charter tax on most islands. The Bahamas charges VAT on the charter fee and Belize adds 10%. Park and cruising permits apply throughout.	VAT at the rate of the country the charter starts in, charged on the charter fee and shown on the contract. Several countries reduce it for time outside EU waters.

TYPICAL WEEKLY RATES FOR SIX TO TEN GUESTS

What a Week Actually Costs

Rates follow the yacht rather than the destination. For a group of six to ten guests, a crewed catamaran in the Caribbean typically runs between $24,000 and $45,000 for the week, all inclusive. Motor yachts of the same capacity start higher, commonly $42,000 to $80,000, because they burn more fuel and carry more crew. Christmas and New Year sit above those bands; shoulder season sits below them.

Two things move the number more than anything else: how many cabins you need, and how new you want the yacht to be. Split between four couples, a catamaran week lands in the same range as a week at a high-end all inclusive resort — with the difference that the resort stays where it is.

See the full breakdown of crewed charter costs, or browse yachts with current rates.

A PRIVATE CHEF, COOKING TO YOUR PREFERENCE SHEET

Food and Drink Aboard

Weeks before you board, you fill in a preference sheet: what you love, what you avoid, allergies, how you take your coffee, which wines and spirits you want stocked. The chef provisions against it, so the galley is already set up for your group on day one.

From there, meals are cooked to order rather than served to a timetable — breakfast when you wake, lunch at anchor after a swim, dinner on deck as the light goes. Local catch, island produce and the regional cooking of wherever you are sailing do most of the work. All of it, including the ship’s bar, is inside the charter fee on a Caribbean all inclusive charter, so nothing arrives as a bill at the end of the week.

WHICH ONE SUITS YOUR GROUP

Crewed, Bareboat or a Resort?

Crewed all inclusive — no licence, no experience and no planning required. The captain chooses the anchorages around the weather and around what your group wants that day, and the chef handles every meal. This is what most families and groups of friends book.
Bareboat — you skipper the yacht yourself, which needs a qualification and real experience. It costs less per week, but provisioning, cooking, navigation and cleaning are yours. We arrange bareboat charters too, and will tell you honestly which of the two fits your group.
An all inclusive resort — comparable money for a comparable standard, in one place, with other guests. A charter trades the resort’s square footage for a different beach every morning and nobody else on board.

Not sure which way to go? Tell us who is travelling and when, and we will come back with two or three yachts that genuinely fit.

THREE STEPS FROM ENQUIRY TO EMBARKATION

How Booking an All Inclusive Charter Works

Choose Your Yacht

Tell us what you have in mind, or simply who is travelling, when and roughly what you want from the week. We match you with the right vessel, then confirm its rate and availability for your dates.

Sign the Contract

Your dates are held against a standard yacht charter agreement and a deposit. Everything included in the rate is written into that contract, so there are no surprises about what you have paid for.

Prepare for the best vacation ever!

You fill in the preference sheet and the yacht is provisioned around it. We stay reachable from that moment until you step off at the end of the week.

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Tax, VAT and permits

Two charters can quote the same weekly figure and cost very different amounts, and tax is usually why. In the Mediterranean, VAT is charged at the rate of the country where the charter begins and sits on top of the fee, with several countries reducing it for time spent outside EU waters. In the Caribbean there is generally no charter tax, with two exceptions: the Bahamas, which charges VAT on the charter fee, and Belize, which adds 10%. Everywhere you will also meet park and cruising permits — small next to the charter fee, but real. None of this is hidden: it is all written into the contract before you pay a deposit. We would simply rather you saw the whole number early than discovered it at signature.

All Inclusive Yacht Charters: Common Questions

On a Caribbean crewed charter the weekly rate covers the yacht, its crew, every meal aboard, snacks, soft drinks, the ship’s bar, the water toys the yacht carries, and fuel for normal cruising. You pay separately for national park and cruising permits, dockage when you choose a marina, meals ashore and the crew gratuity. Mediterranean yachts are quoted differently — the rate covers the yacht and crew, and running costs are handled through an Advance Provisioning Allowance.

For six to ten guests, a crewed catamaran in the Caribbean typically runs $24,000 to $45,000 for the week all inclusive, and a motor yacht of similar capacity $42,000 to $80,000. Christmas and New Year are priced above those bands and shoulder season below them. Divided between four couples it works out close to a week at a high-end all inclusive resort.

Most crewed charter yachts sleep between six and twelve guests, and twelve is the regulatory ceiling for the great majority of them. Catamarans usually take eight to ten in four or five equal cabins, which is why they suit two to five couples or a family group travelling together.

None at all. A crewed charter comes with a professional captain who plans the route around the weather and your plans for the day, so no licence or previous time on the water is required. Experience only matters if you want to take the helm yourself, which the captain will usually be glad to let you do.

For Caribbean Christmas and New Year weeks, nine to twelve months ahead — the best yachts for those two weeks are taken first and are often rebooked by the same guests. For the rest of the Caribbean season and for Mediterranean summer, six to nine months is comfortable. Shorter notice is worth asking about, because cancellations do come up.

Yes, and a crewed charter suits families well: the yacht is a contained space, meals are cooked around what children will actually eat, and the crew are used to running the water toys all afternoon. Tell us the ages when you enquire so we only put forward yachts whose crew and cabin layout work for your group.

The captain moves the itinerary rather than the week. Charter grounds in both the Caribbean and the Mediterranean offer sheltered alternatives within a short run, so a blustery day usually means a different anchorage rather than a lost day. Routes are never fixed in advance for exactly this reason.

It can be, but it is not quoted that way. Mediterranean yachts advertise a base rate for the yacht and crew, plus an Advance Provisioning Allowance of roughly 30 to 35% that covers food, drink, fuel and port fees and is settled against receipts at the end. The final figure is comparable to a Caribbean all inclusive rate; it simply arrives in two parts.

Mostly not, but there are two exceptions worth planning for. Charters in Bahamian waters carry VAT on the charter fee, and Belize adds 10% to the rate. Elsewhere in the Caribbean there is generally no charter tax, though you will still pay park and cruising permits — the British Virgin Islands charge per person per day for the national park, for instance. All of it is set out in the contract before you pay anything, and we will tell you what a given week actually comes to rather than the advertised rate alone.